I have to start by saying that I am a bit disappointed with myself regarding Positive / Climb. When I created this blog it was my intention to maintain an updated journal of my pilot training and to write about aviation in the Azores islands, but now I suddenly realize I haven’t done nothing of the sort… For that, I am sorry. Nevertheless, I do want to maintain this website running and I hope to soon be able to write about my first flying job!

During the past months I’ve been flying mostly IFR, training instrument approaches to the three major airports  in Portugal - Lisbon, Porto and Faro - and to some smaller airfields like Viseu, Coimbra, Beja, Montijo, Évora and Badajoz (Spain). These flights were all done in the school’s CS-DCL (Reims FR172 Rocket) and in CS-DAG, a leased Cessna 172 RG from Aeroplano. Instrument flying is easy but it’s no way near as much fun as flying VFR in a C152! Still, also this part of the training is rapidly coming to and end… Next Sunday I will start the ground school for the school’s twin engine, a Piper Seneca II. I am feeling happy for being on the final stages of the course, but I also feel a bit nostalgic. As I progress through the training, I keep having the urge to go back to the start and doing it all again, just so I can experience it all one more time… Maybe I should try to find the money to get an instructor rating!? We’ll see…

Next phase: Multi-engine flying!

Thanks for reading.